Truman National Security Project

The Truman National Security Project describes itself as being "dedicated to forging a Democratic foreign policy founded on strength and security, grounded in a strong military and active diplomacy, and committed to furthering the American ideals of freedom, dignity, and opportunity worldwide." 

One of its founders, Rachel Kleinfeld, described the impetus for the project as national security as being an asset for the Republicans. "We decided there really was a need to create a movement of Democrats to stand up for these ideas and to really start to think about it, very much as a counterpart to the neoconservatives of the 1970s," she told Forward. The group aims to change the Democratic Party so that national security is seen as a strength rather than as a weakness. 

At its 2005 conference one of the panel discussions was on "what Democrats did wrong, Republicans did right, and neo-cons did better" and "the need to increase the size of the deployable military." 

Staff
Accessed January 2009:


 * Rachel Kleinfeld - Executive Director
 * Sarah Lassner - Director of Development
 * Michael Moschella - Director of Outreach
 * Melissa Skorka - Membership Director
 * Frankie Sturm - Communications Director
 * Tabitha Whissemore - Office Manager

Staff
Accessed January 2009:


 * Stephen Bailey - Senior Vice President, Frontier Strategy Group
 * Pierre Chao - Managing Partner, Renaissance Strategic Advisors
 * Derek Chollet - Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
 * Joy Drucker - Senior Vice President, Glover Park Group
 * Rachel Kleinfeld - President and Executive Director, Truman National Security Project
 * Sally Painter - Principal, Dutko Worldwide
 * Matthew Spence - Co-Founder and Director, Truman National Security Project

Advisory Board
Accessed January 2009:


 * Madeleine K. Albright - Principal, The Albright Group LLC
 * Kurt M. Campbell - CEO and Co-Founder, Center for a New American Security
 * Gregory B. Craig - Partner, Williams and Connolly LLP
 * Leslie H. Gelb - President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
 * William Marshall - President, Progressive Policy Institute
 * William J. Perry - Professor and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
 * John D. Podesta - President and CEO, Center for American Progress
 * Wendy R. Sherman - Principal, The Albright Group LLC
 * Anne-Marie Slaughter - Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Contact details
Truman National Security Project One Massachusetts Ave. Suite 333 Washington, D.C., 20001 Web: http://www.trumanproject.org/index.php

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